AIAA | California State University, Long Beach

For more than 65 years the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) has been the principal society of the aerospace engineer and scientist.Officially formed in 1963 through a merger of the American Rocket Society (ARS) and the Institute of Aerospace Sciences (IAS), the purpose was, and still is, to advance the arts, sciences, and technology of aeronautics and astronautics, and to promote the professionalism of those engaged in these pursuits. Both ARS and IAS brought to the relationship a long and eventful history stretching back to 1930 and 1932, respectively and each left its mark on the Institute. The merger combined the imaginative, opportunistic, and risk-taking desire of those rocket, missile, and space professionals with the more established, well-recognized achievers from the aviation community. Today, with more than 31,000 members, AIAA is the worlds largest professional society devoted to the progress of engineering and science in aviation, space, and ...